Jeffrey Rowland's OVERCOMPENSATING
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29 November 2006

Forget It




I don't know about where you live, but around here it seems like a lot of cars have way too many bumper stickers on them. It's like, back in Oklahoma, people had too many bumper stickers that were about Football and how the government is trying to take away their guns. But here in Massachusetts, there seems to be too many bumper stickers about how Bush is generally disagreeable and ones that encourage others to tolerate the lifestyles of Lesbian Wiccans. Also there are bumper stickers that are opposed to advertising, which kind of causes me to make a noise that is simultaneously a guffaw and a sob... a guffob if you will.

Also they're extremely distracting.

Today is the last day to get original artwork! All pieces will ship this weekend.

49 Comments:

Jonathan Penton said...

When I drive, my eyes are only on Jesus.

He's really kind of a shitty co-pilot.

29/11/06 23:03  
jf said...

I am very much looking forward to seeing what classic cartoon character's shirt you'll be wearing next.

(I'm kind of uncomfortable with the fact that I may have just called DIlbert "classic".)

29/11/06 23:09  
Krin said...

'Support our Troops' stickers are to patriotism what pulling strings to get your kid assigned to non-active duty in wartime is to... well, to patriotism.

Also, Jesus stills says you're gonna burn in hell. At least he sticks to his statements.

Vote Jesus: Not a Flip-Flopper.

29/11/06 23:19  
teressa said...

I hope that this isn't implying that you plan to forget about Dumbledore. Or Jon Benet...she plagues my thoughts constantly. You also forgot the NHL strike, they made bumper stickers for that.

29/11/06 23:48  
TheTachyix said...

Out here, Seattle, people put duct tape on their bumpers and write in sharpie, "I support stuff".

30/11/06 00:27  
Wing said...

Have you seen the "Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam" sticker around? I spotted at least one in Amherst the other day...

30/11/06 00:43  
Damien said...

Regarding the "guffob," when I tried to express the sound, thinking it sounded familiar, I realised that I make that noise, every day.

I teach critical thinking, and i read the news.

I'm surprised You don't make the noise more often.

30/11/06 00:48  
Merus said...

Out here, Australia, feeling passionately about anything that is not sport gets you strange looks.

Although lesbian wiccans... I don't know, lesbians, fine bunch of ladies; wiccans, fair enough, least there's less fundamentalist wiccans; but lesbian wiccans makes me think that they're trying to alienate people and then get upset at them cause they're being all alienated.

30/11/06 00:50  
Valuedan said...

Best alt-text ever.

Also, thank you for putting up my brother's fan art the other day. I totally appreciate it.

30/11/06 01:49  
bk said...

Excellent. The Vinita McDonald's is always a great addition to any strip.

30/11/06 02:34  
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30/11/06 02:34  
shadoian said...

A car in front of me today on King Street had several bumper stickers, only one of which I managed to read as I tore past:

DRAGON PARKING

I'm not sure I even get it -- Is the car meant to be a dragon? Do dragons park the car? Park ON the car? Regardless, I'd think someone that into dragons would be a bit more generous with their damned gas-foot.

30/11/06 02:48  
Deecee .W said...

Oh crap, I just forgot 9/11.

30/11/06 05:03  
Waff-Box Cooled Brain Bot 1.4v said...

Man, I can't believe you let the news about the D slip.

30/11/06 06:03  
enlite said...

Of all the things you listed, I'm honestly most upset about Dumbledore, and I'm not even a big fan of the books.

I'm an awesome American.

30/11/06 06:50  
CapnBob said...

Remember the Alamo!

30/11/06 07:33  
Dug said...

Is that the McDonald's in Northeast Oklahoma?

30/11/06 08:54  
doomglobe said...

Just wanna say, I guffob sometimes. Okay a lot. I guffob at least twice a week. Today I guffob'd when I thought about an anti-peace meme being spread through the war propaganda, when people hear that it is unpatriotic to oppose the war because they can't differentiate between supporting troops and supporting the politicians, they get it in their heads, convince themselves, that peace is an affront to american soldiers. Just thinking about that made me guffob.

30/11/06 09:03  
doomglobe said...

But then, I guess I might have been looking for something to guffob about...

30/11/06 09:03  
Darth Bilious said...

The one I *HATE* is "Animals are little people in fur coats."

GARGH! Only a person who is AS STUPID as a LEMUR would think that that bumper sticker made any sense.

Those fools are probably out there throwing paint on racoons RIGHT NOW.

On our old car we had a blank bumper sticker. It was pretty good.

30/11/06 10:38  
Patrick Ian Banks said...

Don't forget about the mudflaps with Yosemite Sam in Confederate Grey yelling "Surrender? Hell!" Those go great with the Calvin Peeing on Osama decal's.

30/11/06 10:53  
Rev. Joker Cross, KSC said...

If I forget 911, what will I do if a robber comes to my house? Who will I call? Of course I'll never forget 911.

30/11/06 11:37  
Roman said...

Has anyone out there actually forgotten Nine Eleven? Amnesiacs, maybe? People with advanced Alzheimer's?

30/11/06 11:57  
Spiderbaby said...

I'm pretty sure there's an overcompensating alt-text which kinda spoils part of the recent Harry Potter book. For the last two books I spent two days off-line, even avoiding phone calls.

The web is like that kid in school who told everybody that the Hogfather doesn't exist. Every single day. Never forget!

30/11/06 12:04  
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30/11/06 12:07  
Spiderbaby said...

Actually, "By Jingo" bumper stickers would be pretty cool... or "Buy Jingo"...

30/11/06 12:08  
The Bourbon Samurai said...

Ok, now I want an "animals are little people in fur coats" bumper sticker. That is the creepiest thing I have ever heard.

30/11/06 12:34  
Jeff said...

Jeffrey, I only have one sticker on the back of my car and it reads "I AM MADE OF POISON."

30/11/06 13:42  
enlite said...

Jeffrey: I just got my back-ordered LNMAC shirt and the Sheriff Pony stickers you threw in made me squeal like an adorable little piggy in a bath of mud and food scraps. Adorable but smelly.

I should shower. And wear my new shirt!

30/11/06 14:01  
Muad'Dib said...

i wish to every deity in the book i could forget Nine... whatever it is. having spent a hundred and sixty eight days of my life in a very ugly place, supporting the wasted efforts of our mad texan priest-king to end "terra" in "amurka" by exporting it to somewhere it didn't come from in the first place, i am painfully aware of it. i pray for amnesia.

30/11/06 14:23  
Adam said...

Jeffrey, about the bumper stickers:

It's not all of Massachusetts that has the bumper stickers. Remember that you live in Northampton, the Hippie capital of the world.

Actually, instead of remembering that, try to NEVER FORGET.

30/11/06 14:26  
jeffrey rowland said...

Muad'Dib, I like your style.

30/11/06 15:29  
jeffrey rowland said...

Also I have been to places that aren't Northampton (Such as Leeds and Springfield and even New York City) and there are cars with too many bumper stickers EVERYWHERE.

30/11/06 15:30  
becomethesea said...

Put the stick-ah on the bump-ah of the c-ah!

Sry couldn't resist

30/11/06 17:03  
Ronald MacKinnon said...

Cudos for the mention of the Molasses disaster.

30/11/06 17:48  
TehAngryMonkey said...

Yeah... Massachusetts and New England in general is like that...
But it's all okay when you see the bumper sticker that's just a giant penis

30/11/06 18:14  
Muad'Dib said...

is that a woman in the strip?

eeuuww

30/11/06 18:40  
Wombat and the Penguins said...

Why, did something happen on the 9th of November?

30/11/06 19:38  
robin said...

you get 8 million points for mentioning the molasses disaster. i was thinking of that while making punkin pie the other day... i guess as long as i love pie i will never forget

30/11/06 22:24  
montydan said...

hey, i've been to that mcdonald's in the second panel. it wasin like oklahoma or something.

30/11/06 23:04  
Melissa K. said...

1. Kudos for the great glass McDonald's. Many a school trip to "somewhere up North" was at least partially spent there. Tulsa representin'.

2. Be glad you are in that one state and not back in Oklahoma, because everything is covered in like a thousand layers of black ice. And you know how them Southerners drive.

30/11/06 23:20  
Howlin' Hobbit said...

Remember the Maine!

30/11/06 23:37  
Fire Monkey Bob said...

I'm pretty much sick of anything that goes on/near the bumper of a car... Including other cars.

1/12/06 00:10  
Stevie said...

Why would you forget 911? Isnt that your emergancy services number? Handy thing to remember I would have thought.

1/12/06 01:53  
Scarybug said...

I saw a car with a bunch of anti-bumper-sticker bumper-stickers
"ban bumper stickers" "bumper stickers are not funny" etc.

I want a backwards lettered bumper sticker to put on my FRONT bumper that people can read in their rear-view mirror. It would say "I hate your bumper stickers"

The only sticker on my bumper is Sheriff Pony.

1/12/06 11:33  
Muad'Dib said...

Now that I'm done commenting on the serious issues, I remember that McD's too. I ate there once when I was about 12 and driving from Pennsylvania back to my old house in Austin. It used to be the biggest in the world till they topped it with a new one in Russia, or so I heard. Drove under it again a few years ago but wasn't hungry... meh ;)

1/12/06 11:49  
Brien said...

Oh hey I know that place in the background. The biggest McDonalds in the midwest or some shit. Goes over the interstate. Gross!

1/12/06 12:42  
End If Kris said...

Man, I am surprised that that McDonalds is not a national landmark in your country. It is like a testament to the American spirit. large, ugly, and full of grease.

1/12/06 13:10  
jeffrey rowland said...

That McDonald's is about 30 miles from where I grew up.

1/12/06 13:11  

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